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(description of a new species, Antedon capensis [= Tropiometra carinata], in reality a member 

 of Carpenter's Milberti group).- — Minckert, Arch. Naturg., Jahrg. 71, vol. 1, 1905, p. 207. — 

 A. H. Clark, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 33, 1907, pp. 127, 128 (new species described); Smith- 

 sonian Misc. Coll., vol. 50, pt. 3, 1907, pp. 343, 344 (characters differentiating this group not 

 diagnostic), p. 345 (heterogeneous nature of the group), p. 348 (species with unplated disk and 

 ambulacra assigned to Nanometra, gen. nov.), p. 359 (larger part of species included in Thalas- 

 sometra, gen. nov.), p. 361 (most of the species not included in Thalassometra fall into Chari- 

 tometra, gen. nov.); Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 36, 1909, p. 365 (included by Hartlaub and 

 Minckert in a section of Antedon with side and covering plates, though some species are without 

 them) . 



Acoela group (in part) P. H. Carpenter, Challenger Reports, Zoology, vol. 26, pt. 60, 1888, p. 131 

 (Antedon acoela only; A. discoidea belongs to the Calometridae). — Hartlaub, Nova Acta Acad. 

 German, vol. 58, No. 1, 1891, p. 12 (diagnosis; range; 2 species), p. 14 (characteristic of the 

 deep sea) ; Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 27, No. 4, 1895, p. 136 (structural position). — Minckert, 

 Arch. Naturg., Jahrg. 71, vol. 1, 1905, p. 207.— A. H. Clark, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 33, 

 1907, p. 128 (description of new species in this group); Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 50, pt. 3, 

 1907, p. 343 (characters differentiating this group not diagnostic), p. 362 (Poecilomelra, gen. 

 nov., includes part of the species), p. 363 (Calometra, gen. nov., includes part of the species). 



Spinifera group (in part) P. H. Carpenter, Challenger Reports, Zoology, vol. 26, pt. 60, 1888, p. 

 211 (Antedon flexilis, A. patula, A. robusta, A. pourtal'esi, and A. brevipinna; A. macronema 

 belongs to the Ptilometridae and A. quinquecostata, A. spinifera, A. duplex, A. lusitanica, and 

 A. compressa to the Thalassometridae). — Minckert, Arch. Naturg., Jahrg. 71, vol. 1, 1905, p. 

 207; for further references see p. i. 



"ranulifera group (in part) P. H. Carpenter, Challenger Reports, Zoology, vol. 26, pt. 60, 1888, p. 

 239 (Antedon angusticalyx, A. inaequalis, A. granulifera, and A. distincta; A. multispina and A. 

 porrecla belong to the Thalassometridae); Journ. Linn. Soc. (Zool.), vol. 21, 1889, p. 308 (species 

 compared with A. [Pontiometra] andersoni). — Hartlaub, Nova Acta Acad. German., vol. 58, 

 No. 1, 1891, p. 13 (diagnosis; range; 6 species). — Bell, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1894, p. 398 

 (description of Antedon inopinata, sp. nov. [— Himerometra robuslipinna, Himerometridae]). — 

 Hartlaub, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 27, No. 4, 1895, p. 136 (structural position). — Grieo, 

 Bergens Mus. Aarbog for 1903 (1904), No. 5, p. 85. — Minckert, Arch. Naturg., Jahrg. 71, 

 vol. 1, 1905, p. 207.— A. H. Clark, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 50, pt. 3, 1907, pp. 343, 344 

 (characters differentiating this group not diagnostic), p. 359 (one species included in Thalas- 

 sometra, gen. nov.), p. 361 (most of the species not included in Thalassometra fall in Charitometra, 

 gen. nov.).— Hartlaub, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 27, No. 4, 1912, pp. 285, 286. 



Brevipinna group Minckert, Arch. Naturg., Jahrg. 71, vol. 1, 1905, p. 225. — A. H. Clark, Smith- 

 sonian Misc. Coll., vol. 50, pt. 3, 1907, p. 344 (history and definition) ; Vid. Medd. Nat. Foren. 

 K0benhavn, 1909, p. 146 (criticism; in reality non-existent). 



Savignyi group (in part) Bell, Marine investigations in South Africa, vol. 4, 1905, pp. 140, 141 

 (descriptions of two new species, Antedon sclateri and A. magnicirra). 



Thalassometridae (part) A. H. Clark, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 21, 1908, p. 136; Proc. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., vol. 34, 1908, p. 211. 



Charitometrinae A. H. Clark, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 22, 1909, p. 2 (definition and com- 

 parisons), p. 18 (revision of the included genera); Vid. Medd. Nat. Foren. I\0benhavn, 1909, 

 p. 146 (variation in the IIBr series in West Indian species); Mem. Australian Mus., vol. 4, 1911, 

 p. 728 (raised to family rank); Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 5, No. 4, 1915, pp. 126-134 

 (phylogenetical and paleontological significance of the bathy metrical range). 



Charitometridae A. H. Clark, Mem. Australian Mus., vol. 4, 1911, p. 728 (Charitometrinae raised to 

 family rank) ; Crinoids of the Indian Ocean, 1912, p. 6 (number of Fast Indian genera also repre- 

 sented in the Atlantic, number represented in the Atlantic by closely allied genera, and number 

 confined to the East Indies; number of East Indian species), p. 10 (greatly developed in Japan), 

 p. 11 (occurs both cast and west of Ceylon), p. 12 (represented in the Red Sea region by Pachylo- 

 metra, in the southeast African region by the same), p. 13 (East Indian and corresponding West 

 Indian genera), p. 14 (characterisitc of the Intermediate fauna, but one species comes within 30 

 fathoms of the surface), p. 24 (range in detail; closely parallels the range of the Thalassometridae, 



